It was frustrating when my oldest was a baby and couldn't talk. She would scream and we would spend so much time and energy trying to figure out what she wanted (that's how we ended up thinking we were feeding her for the first three weeks of her life but she was starving. That's a post for another day). I couldn't wait for the day when she could tell me what was going on, what she wanted, what she needed, what in the world was happening in that brain of hers. Well, she's been able to talk for awhile now and that is an improvement most of the time, other times, well, I wish she had a mute button. She is a smart, precocious, loquacious, incessant child.
Here are some of the jewels that have spilled forth from her mouth.
3YO: Can I watch TV?
Me: No, go play for a bit.
3YO: If you don't let me watch TV I'm going to tell Daddy on you.
Me: Go ahead.
3YO goes and talks to Husband.
3YO: I told Daddy on you. Can I watch TV now?
Me: Nice try but nope.
3YO stands there looking perplexed.
Husband: Do you need help washing your hands? 3YO: No, I can do it MYSELF!
3YO starts yelling for help in the bathroom. Husband turns the water on.
3YO: I was going to do that MYSELF!
3YO starts crying and slams the door to the bathroom.
Continues crying.
3YO: I'm CRYING.
Me: What did you do at school today?
3YO: TOOT! (Laughs uproariously at her hilarious joke)
After running away screaming from the table because she didn't like how her breakfast muffin was cut, then coming back and asking for more food:
Me: I thought you were upset and didn't want to eat breakfast?
3YO: I was tired. I'm better now.
3YO expresses that she wants to go fishing
Me: What do you do with the fish after you catch them? Do you eat them?
3YO looks at me like I'm crazy.
3YO: No, you put them back in the ocean as long as there aren't any sharks there.
Getting ready for work and put on my "I Voted" sticker.
3YO: Mommy, what's that sticker for?
Me: It says I voted in the election today. It's important to vote.
3YO: When can I vote?
Me: You have to wait about 15 years before you can vote. You have to be an adult.
3YO: That sounds boring.
Some of the funniest things are when she starts parroting back things we say all the time. Yesterday I asked her why something is the way it is and she said "that's just how life works."